What Security do you use?

aliEnRIK

Thats for ONE CARE, not Security Essentials. And its quite poor for the 'on demand' viruses (Unless your reading it from elsewhere as I cant find an OCTOBER report)

seedyh

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Thats for ONE CARE, not Security Essentials. And its quite poor for the 'on demand' viruses (Unless your reading it from elsewhere as I cant find an OCTOBER report)

It almost sounds like you don't believe me

av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/removal/avc_removal_2009.pdf

Onecare was removed in the middle of October and the report states it's MSE. I'm not saying it's the best there is, but as a free solution it shouldn't be ignored.

aliEnRIK

Thats a SEPTEMBER result. Fair play, but thats a very basic test. Ill wait for them to release a full one

djrickyb

djrickyb wrote: »

I have all the usual removal tools on my PC but have not found ANY virus, spyware etc in nearly 2 years thanks to just THREE programs,

Zone Alarm Firewall
Nod 32 Antivirus
and in my opinion the BEST security program, free OR paid....

Sandboxie
(just Google it for the website)

All your surfing is done within a secure environment on your PC and nothing can get out unless you want it too (downloaded files).
The best part of it is.... it's FREE.

Rick

Amazing!
Despite my claim, there has not been a single comment.
The website for this brilliant piece of freeware is www sandboxie com

aliEnRIK

djrickyb wrote: »

Amazing!
Despite my claim, there has not been a single comment.
The website for this brilliant piece of freeware is www sandboxie com

Thats because most of us already know about it

spud17

Trusteer Rapport (very cool piece of software that locks down your browser during online banking - highly recommended)

That appears to be at odds with THIS thread.

G_M

I recently uninstalled AVG after 2 years. The latest upgrade used so many resources my PC felt like a tractor!

At the same time I removed Ad-Aware - again the latest version ran for 6 hours and was still going strong!

Replaced them with Avast and Malwarebytes.

Both run easily without slowing me down.

trouble is they don't ever pick anything up! AVG used to regularly pick up / remove things: no viruses (well occassionally) but frequent 'warnings' (trackers I think). And Ad-aware always picked things up.

So is my PC suddenly not being targetted or are Avast/Malwarebytes just not picking stuff up?????

aliEnRIK

G_M wrote: »

I recently uninstalled AVG after 2 years. The latest upgrade used so many resources my PC felt like a tractor!

At the same time I removed Ad-Aware - again the latest version ran for 6 hours and was still going strong!

Replaced them with Avast and Malwarebytes.

Both run easily without slowing me down.

trouble is they don't ever pick anything up! AVG used to regularly pick up / remove things: no viruses (well occassionally) but frequent 'warnings' (trackers I think). And Ad-aware always picked things up.

So is my PC suddenly not being targetted or are Avast/Malwarebytes just not picking stuff up?????

Tracking cookies are nothing. But if you want to pick them up then run SUPERANTISPYWARE (And if you want to block them at the source then use SPYBOTS immunise feature)

G_M

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Tracking cookies are nothing. But if you want to pick them up then run SUPERANTISPYWARE (And if you want to block them at the source then use SPYBOTS immunise feature)

Thanks - superantispyware found/removed 145 adwares.

But I already use spybot's immunise - it may block some but certainly also lets a lot through.

AVG worked well if only it didn't use so much resource...

aliEnRIK

G_M wrote: »

Thanks - superantispyware found/removed 145 adwares.

But I already use spybot's immunise - it may block some but certainly also lets a lot through.

AVG worked well if only it didn't use so much resource...

No, I already said tracking cookies are nothing. Spybot only tends to block malicious things (I admit I never said that, but at least using spybots immunise feature is safer than not using it).
If you want to block a whole lot more then use FIREFOX with NOSCRIPT